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Lakay Tinong

Florentino Lardizabal, 39, radio broadcaster of RPN9Baguio, died April 29 night of cerebral aneurysm. Lardizabal, moreknown as "Lakay Tinong" to his listeners for more than 15 years, felthis aneurysm burst on his way to this 6:00 am broadcast last April 28morning and never recovered from comatose. He is survived by his wifeand four children. He was the vice-president of Baguio BenguetCorrespondents and Broadcasters Club and would like to beremembered for his good cookingand easy humor. Another RPN9stalwart, Baby de Guzman, died earlier this month.

Clue

A boardgame we used to play when we were young was Clue (Cluedo in the Philippines) which taught us to be anal ytical and skeptical. This is a game hardly played now with PS2 and all but boy, it was fun and maybe there's an electronic version but I'm sure it's not even half as fun as the real one. Until this came along. $150! Deluxe version.

Hannah Montana's Racy Photos

"I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed," said Miley Cyrus, the daughter of country star Billy Ray Cyrus and star of "Hannah Montana." The photos were taken by the great Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair. The photographer said: "Miley and I looked at fashion photographs together and we discussed the picture in that context before we shot it. The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful."This is the racy Montana photo. More like race.

Pregnancy for Idiots

The Ting Tings

Yes, there's such a band. Vocalist/ guitarist Katie White and drummer Jules De Martino began the Ting Tings in 2006 after an ill-fated career in Dear Eskiimo, and after their fair share of underground hype, signed to Columbia for the release of debut We Started Nothing in May. Their yet unknown records include "Great DJ," "Shut Up & Let Me Go," and "That's Not My Name".I think they would be better off with Tingting Cojuangco on brass knuckles and Joey Marquez, convicted for overpricing walis tingting while mayor of Paranakyu, on timpani.

Piss Left, Piss Right

Close to the Heart

Tinong Lardizabal, the morning anouncer of RPN9 here, had a stroke this morning and is still unconscious up to now. He is our kababata, though of the gin side of drinking. But still makes you think. Last saw him during the Media Camp of the BCBC at Burnham where he was camp director. Funny guy.Mr. Vampire himself, Ed Cabagnot, came to town after his API (Asian Public Intellektwal) and raised havoc as usual at Rumours. But we know things are not the same. Sid is dead (he gave some info which can not be blogged just yet about the circumstance of his death) and the Maharishi is dead. In fact, Ed mentioned about astrological things that predicted such deaths. The last time was in the Age of Aquarius 30 plus years ago when Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin died within a month or so.

The Wikipedia Entry for Ferdinand Marcos

Viagra Cowboy Joke

An elderly Benguet cowboy went to the local drug store and asked the pharmacist for the little blue Viagra pill.The pharmacist asked 'How many?'The cowboy replied, 'Just a few, maybe a half dozen. I cut each one into four pieces.' The pharmacist said, 'That's too small a dose. That won't get you through sex.'The old fellow said, 'Ania nga sex? I'm 80 and I don't care about sex anymore. I just want it to stick out far enough so I don't pee on my new boots.

This is Lenny Kravitz and Adriana Lima

Unholyhours Tackles the Rice Crisis

by queueing to these sites:1) 30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened?The U.S. Role in Haiti's Food Riots

By BILL QUIGLEY

Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

The Economist, which calls the current crisis the silent tsunami, reports that last year wheat prices rose 77% and rice 16%, but since January rice prices have risen 141%. The reasons include rising fuel costs, weather problems, increased demand in China and India, as well as the push to create biofuels from cereal crops. (see comments for the rest)

3) My idol Luis Teodoro on rice and crisis: It's an attribute the left everywhere shares. The right may have the money, the power, and the guns, but it's the left that has the brains, the organizational will, and the passion to sustain any fight. That capacity is being demonstrated particularly in Latin America, where leftist and center-left governments have been elected in key countries, among them Bolivia, Paraguay and Venezuela. Vying with that development is the Maoist triumph in the recent elections in Nepal, right here in Asia. What was instrumental in all these instances was the leftist capacity for painstaking organizing, mass education and mobilization, often against near-impossible odds. It helps explain why the Arroyo regime has filed murder charges against and intensified its surveillance of Ocampo and company-- seemingly despite, but actually because, of the crisis over

8) As the bishops insist (including Bishop as*lickers Rene Q. Bas and Antonio Montalvan III), it's corruption not population. Never population, ha! And the population of the Philippines can fit in Makati. Never population, please. Let the Pinoys multiply because Jesus loves the poor. Hey, look at the good side. We will supply the workers in the FUTURE! Condoms are Hell's raincoat. Imagine na lang if former Diosdado Macapagal used a condom, then there would have been no PGMA! And look na lang at the sons of the president. Good people. Shades of PGMA with the combined libido of their parents. Would we allow them to wear condoms. No way.

The Movie of the Year!!!

The Silliman Rengga

Here's an old poem I discovered:

SillimanBeachRandom Lines written at SilimanBeach by five young poets 16th of June 1968

Here where we leave prints running to the covesThe sea’s want of our presences is felt; likeWaves, ripples, your shriek, or the breakneck wind:We are, we shall be, but we’re not – the lost printsAre imaginings; our images conjured in sandAre incomplete like tops of shells or pairless shoes.DONEL PACIS

Sails and shoes are prints indeed, lost in the sea;Patterns change as patterns leave the light –But children’s voices spilling over pebbles echoThrough the jagged coves of mirthless hearts.Yet even these will like the falling waves subside. ELSA VICTORIA MARTINEZ

Subside, fall off like paper waves rolled outBy the sea’s typewriter carriage, the heart a batteredMachine: the single shoe stringless and tattered EMMANUEL LACABA

Three Ps

Santiago

I was in Santiago, Ilocos Sur waiting for a northward gus. A minibus stopped in front and the konduktor shouted, Vegan. In the American pronounciation of Vey-gan. He meant, Vigan (of course). My friend said, "Pork-eating" and we let it pass.This BTW is the 8th most emailed photo in Yahoo. You saw the joke in an earlier blog.

Sports Rants (with Photos of Li Wei, Our Artist of the Week)

It's so hard to be a Seattle sports fan. First, they now have no NBA franchise team now. 2nd, the Seahawks released Shaun Alexander, the NFL MVP two years ago. That, after releasing Joey Galloway also years ago. The only bright hope are the Mariners and yet, they got into injuries early. This while watching live the M's - Orioles game when Hernandez pitched to Hernandez who grounded to 2nd while Hernandez slid to 3rd safely. Couldn't figure that out, unless you are a fan of Calvin & Hobbes.

Many Rivers to Cross

Hey, Annie Lennox finally got to sing "Many Rivers to Cross," my comfort song while crossing the mighty Marag River in the 1990s nine times. I cried when Wyclef Jean sang it in JFK Jr's funeral and cried when AL sang this is AI. Yeah, she is Brian Gorrell's favorite singer. And this probably what brought back the great Lennox to the Top 100 after more than a decade

Googolopoly

Hey, This is a fun game. The main premise is you get to be God aka Google through shares to buy as many properties as you can without landing in the deadpool and losing your stock. As with any great board game, there’s a very real metaphor to what’s going on…. What happens when the Google monster gobbles up all that is left in the web world, is present on your cell phone, desktop, and even controls your health information? For all their product excellence, the threat of amassing this much data is too serious to ignore. I give you the full board and you download the rest here.

Barthelme in Bontoc

Reading companions in Bontoc were a Poets&Writers magazine and "Not-Knowing", book on the nonfiction works of Donald Barthelme. Left D.B. in a hotel and thought I lost it forever. But, Lo and behold!, had it returned to me against all odds. It's a sign.

"Play is one of the great possibilities of art; it is also ... theEros-principle whose repression means total calamity. The humorlesspractitioners of le noveau roman produce such calamities regularly, as do ournative worshippers of the sovereign Fact. It is the result of a lack ofseriousness."--From an essay, "After Joyce"

To Friends in California: Read and Help

Preschoolers SHEIRRA MAE BATULAN of Cebu, and CHRISTINE ANGELA BARREDO of Zamboanga City have complex congenital heart disease. Christine also has a cleft lip and palate. Their families cannot afford to pay for the medical supplies and the tests, which are considered as the Filipino charity patient's share for heart surgery. Now these little girls have the once in a lifetime chance to get their hearts repaired at UCLA Medical Center through MENDING KIDS INTERNATIONAL's US CARE PROGRAM. But they need you to help them find a volunteer medical host family before they can even get to California. Sheirra's dad is jobless and her mom is a factory worker in Mactan making $5 a day to support a large extended family, including grandparents and cousins. Christine is an only child, but her father must also support his parents and younger siblings from his earnings as a tricycle driver in Zamboanga City. Both little girls will be escorted , without accompanying family members, by Menchu Sarmiento of the PAL Foundation. PAL Foundation gives Filipino charity patients medical travel grants to help them to access free medicalcare for serious ailments.Please help them to find families who will be willing to take care of them before, during and after their surgery. To find out how to become an accredited medical host family, you may contact MENDING KIDS: 661.298.8000 or 562.260.9939 (Keever Rhodes) or email menchu_sarmiento@pal.com.ph.